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Isabel Scarborough

Arts, Media, & Social Sciences Faculty Chair

Office: C121

iscarborough@parkland.edu

217/351-2385

I am very interested in teaching and community outreach with anthropology. My research work focuses on two generations of indigenous market women in Cochabamba, Bolivia. I explore local ways these women  imagine, embody and practice the market and how they negotiate their insertion into the global economy. A new project explores issues of social and ethnic mobility for female entrepreneurs in the Andes. (more)